McCain: "I'm Not Running On The Bush Presidency"

AFP :

John McCain on Tuesday struck away from the political legacy of President George W. Bush, as he sought to plot an obstacle-strewn course back to the White House for Republicans.

The party's presidential pick also mused on the lessons of his rebellious youth, as he sought to frame his life story as a history of self sacrifice and military service, the culmination of which would be the presidency.

"The point is, I'm not running on the Bush presidency, I'm running on my own service to the country, my own record in the House of Representatives and the United States Senate and my vision for the future," McCain told ABC televisio

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Comments

[logicaldog]

I am really having difficulty in understanding the merit of being a prisoner of war? I mean it is braver to actually serve IN the war (doing something). McCain was born with the same silver spoon as Bush, never had to prove himself on his own merit, was bailed out over and over again by military family. In terms of being more articulate than Bush, heres the difference-it is in the route to dementia-Bush is clearly just stupid, McCain is senile, gets you to the same place in the road, unable to identify the goal, the enemy, what victory would look like if you saw it and the willingness to sacrifice the lives of others towards the nongoal for nothing.

[McSurgent]

Gee, rabid Obamans trashing McCain. Not surprised. Still pleasantly surprised when they trash Bill and Hillary. It must be the Unity thing.

[springsm]

Wrong on all accounts. And Unity was the biggest. You nincompoop.

[McSurgent]

Watch it, Bush is listening!!! LOL

[cynic]

What's not to trash. The man is delusional.
Bomb, bomb, bomb... bomb, bomb Iran...
100 years in Iraq...
I'm no expert in economics...
I was against campaign finance control until I was for it (when I desparately needed the money). Now I'm against it again. (and I hope no one will notice that I can't legally do this...)
Hug me Georgie...

[Ron]

Denial of the truth is a hard bad habit to break. Ask the president, he's fighting it every day. Oblivious to the reality of what he says and what he does, are always different, John McCain is a poor excuse for a long term politican with little to show for what he's done, except to back Bush the last 7 years.

[neocon43]

Most Americans know Mccain is his own man.This will never fly.

[MizJ]

Why of course he is. The man will say and do anything to get that job.

[neocon43]

You say he is so wrong on Iraq and American people want out.How is that saying anything to get the job.Seems you are the dillusional one!

[humuhumunukunukuapuaa]

Then: W-04
Now: M-08

More the Same
Just Insane
John McCain

[sugarmoes]

oh chess chu are mang...

[RAStewart]

To be fair, McCain is smarter and more articulate than Bush, he has actually served his country honorably in wartime and from the accounts I've read showed a lot of courage when he did, and he has a more substantial record of publc service generally and of bipartisanship in particular--not that that's a very high bar of comparison.

So would McCain be an improvement over Bush? Well, let me put it this way:

If I were at death's door with double pneumonia, and I'd been treated for eight days by a quack who had never cracked open a medical book and had no notion of human anatomy, I'd be somewhat relieved to have my case taken over by a doctor who at least knew where my lungs were.

On the other hand, given my druthers, it would be even better to be treated with antibiotics, rather than continue with the leeches and cold showers.

[Paisano]

Yes you are!

[NoMercy]

The trouble with America at the present time is that it is too powerful to be a democracy. The people are too stupid.

[BreakingnewsJustintime]

Sounds like Eurotrash bs to me.

[djthedj]

Thanks for proving his point.

[bfraser55]

The trouble with the American people is they get their news from FOX and it has a hypnotizing affect on them, they're in a stupor. Bush lies, Fox lies and America believes it.

[aaronburr]

"Too powerful to be a democracy????"

Talk about stupid, it would be difficult to top the profoundly stupidity of that comment. What would you prefer America to be: monarchy? military dictatorship? communist hegemony? As Churchill said, "It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

[WLA]

That's why we are a constitutionally limited Republic. If we voted to maintain the checks and balances inherent in the system that the founding fathers put forward, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are in now.

The problem lies with education. This has been compounding exponentially with the "I've got mine, so FU" mindset of Reaganomics. Deregulation continues to prove disastrous on a daily basis. Not only in the financial sector. Deregulation of the media, for example, brings you the wonderful new "product" that we loosely call news. And here we are, back to education.

[mellene]

Well he's even a bigger liar--no one believes that he's not running on the Bush presidency. It'll be like a third term for George Bush.

[eugenegerard]

Oh Yes You Are!!!!

[EricThinks]

McCain makes much of his heroic service to the country. Even Obama lauds him as a true American hero. But a willingness to sacrifice for your country, to endure pain and suffering, to be a true patriot is not an absolute good. In the Vietnam War the U.S. policies were savage and morally bankrupt, resulting in the needless deaths of millions of Vietnamese and destroying the lives of tens of thousands of young Americans. All because of a foolish post WWII decision to support the interests of imperialist allies France and Britain, rather than the emerging third-world national independence movements. Intelligent young people in the 60s and 70s new that the US was wrong in Vietnam and did what they could to avoid the military and bring the war to an end. These are my heros. I do not honor McCain's service in Vietnam just as I do not honor the service of Nazi soldiers, British Imperialist occupiers, biggotted miltiant Islamic Jihadists, Spanish Conquistators, and General Custer. You only get points for heroism if the cause is good.

[springsm]

Well he was doing all that HERO stuff from an airplane and got shot down..plane number 5 in his count of wrecking airplanes....and being a POW was not by choice it was by being captured..WHY does that make him a hero? Never understood that one. From a warrior pilot's view..seems to me all he did was see the puffs of white that killed. I can just hear his yahoos too. Blah..

[JulieSA]

"...and being a POW was not by choice"

Actually, that's not true. He refused an offer to be released early, because that would have played into NV propaganda and violated the Code of Conduct. He, and others, were tortured for refusing to be released and almost died from the years of subsequent imprisonment. You should read some of the books on the subject.

[bigironal25]

EricThinks-I couldn't have said it any better except that we have not ingaged in a justifiable war since world warll. every military adventure since Dec 7, 1941 has been played-out in order to enrich a select few ,politically and financially.

[bogananda666]

McCain the insane is a war criminal for bombing Vietnamese civilians, a war criminal for violating the UCMJ, Uniform Code of Military Justice and wouldn't even protect his own family from the insults and abuses of the Bush gang in 2000. He's declared wars for 100 of years to protect the world but WOULDN'T EVEN PROTECT HIS OWN FAMILY.He claims to be Ronald Reagoon's heir being that he already has symptoms oft The Republican Party's Reagoon Alzheimer's which is highly contagious only to Republicans. Reagoon had it for at least his last term and its symptoms are the: I don't;recall;remember;know;the I don't................and so forth. It's been on TV since the 1980's. It proves that a Republican president doesn't require a brain and/or a mind and they prefer it that way.

[Spud777]

My sources claim that they got McCain's comment to Bush on a tape: It was the famous line by Jack Twist: "I wish I knew how to quit you."

If you need more proof, check out the picture of McCain "hugging" Bush. Could be they were heading for a little "meeting" in the oval office. Nothing suprises me with the republicans anymore.

[situationcritical]

At least you got the line from the movie correct.

[elkabong]

Republicans want us to vote for their reject eight years older. They decided he was worse than Bush. And they continue to proffer their opinions as if they were worth something.

[Curt]

I believe that the success will be fairly easy." [CNN, 9/24/02]

"We will win this conflict. We will win it easily." [MSNBC, 1/22/03]

"I believe that we can win an overwhelming victory in a very short period of time." [CNN, 9/29/02]

"We"re not going to get into house to house fighting in Baghdad. We may have to take out buildings, but we"re not going to have a bloodletting of trading American bodies for Iraqi bodies." [9/29/02]

"It was easy, it was easy. I said the military operation would be easy." [MSNBC, 1/10/07]

Vs.

"The American people� were lead to believe that this would be some kind of a day on the beach which many of us, uh, fully understood from the beginning would be a very, very difficult undertaking." [CNN, 8/22/06]

"I Knew it was probably going to be long and hard and tough. And those that voted for it and thought that somehow it was going to be some kind of an easy task, then I"m sorry they were mistaken. Maybe they didn"t know what they were voting for." [MSNBC 1/4/07]

Tomorrow McflipFlop will claim that he was for calling the country the American United States before he against it. (Yes he is that old)